Fulacht fia in Inchanappa North

The site is in Rathmore townland, on the route of the N11 Newtownmountkennedy–Ballynabarny Road Scheme. It was discovered during monitoring of topsoil clearance to facilitate the construction of the Killoughter interchange. Excavation revealed a spread of burnt-mound material at the base of the west-facing slope of a hill, on which Monitoring Site 22 was discovered, and 16m east of a small stream that ran through the fulacht fiadh complex excavated in Rathmore by Catherine McLoughlin in 2001 (Excavations 2001, No. 1380, 01E0471). The fulacht fiadh survived as a ploughed-out burnt spread that measured c. 7.18m north–south by 6.82m, with a maximum depth of 0.28m. This fill overlay a slight hollow, to the north of the site, which may have been used as a trough. Monitoring Site 23, which was c. 30m south-east of the fulacht, proved to be of no archaeological significance (Bennett 2004, 541). Date of upload: 01 October 2012